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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2024-2025

Module TMMC2287: Exploring Leadership and Theology for Ministry and Mission

Department: Theology, Ministry and Mission

TMMC2287: Exploring Leadership and Theology for Ministry and Mission

Type Tied Level 2 Credits 10 Availability Available in 2024/2025 Module Cap Location Durham

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • TMMC2171 Leadership and Theology for Ministry and Mission

Aims

  • To enable students to apply selected appropriate theological disciplines to inform leadership in the church and the workplace.
  • To encourage students to integrate biblical, theological, pastoral, ethical and liturgical approaches to leadership with their prior experience, formulating their own coherent personal response and practice in the light of the church’s ministry and mission.
  • To enable students to think laterally about issues concerning leadership and to how they might apply them as reflective practitioners able to identify and apply principles of collaborative working to servant leadership.
  • To develop students’ capacity and disposition for servant leadership that is informed by profound listening to the world, to others, to self and to God.

Content

  • Biblical and theological understandings of leadership, authority, service and collaboration within the perspective of the church’s ministry and mission.
  • A study of the relationship between spirituality and servant leadership.
  • Leadership as listening to self, others, God and the world.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • [SSK 3]
  • Describe and analyse in detail key theological and biblical principles underpinning leadership and collaboration in the context of the church’s ministry and mission.
  • Compare and contrast influential ideas about leadership and management and evaluate them and the questions to which they give rise from a theological perspective in the context of Christian discipleship, ministry and mission.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • [SSS 3]
  • Reflect critically and theologically on their own experience of group and team membership and leadership identifying strengths, weaknesses and areas for development.
Key Skills:
  • [KS 3, 4]
  • Take responsibility for a task that involves independent inquiry; leading and working with others collaboratively, critically evaluating their own and others’ practice as Christian leaders and learning from it the management of time, resources and use of IT; meeting deadlines, evaluating the task and learning from it.
  • Plan their own personal and professional development.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Lectures and personal study
  • Summative written assessment

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
Lectures 8 1.75 16
Personal study 84
Total 100

Summative Assessment

Component: Written Assessment Component Weighting: 100%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Written assessment 2500 words 100%

Formative Assessment:


Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University